Spring Waterbird Count 2020: Elemental
At the staff house this week, there’s been an ongoing, friendly debate. Rich, WPBO’s hawk counter, believes that I, the waterbird counter, have the worse end of the weather deal. I don’t think that I [...]
Owl Update 4/22/2020
Despite the fact that there have been a couple of recent nights when the weather conditions right here at the Point have provided us with some hope, it is clear that the wider weather patterns [...]
North Of The Wall
The trees speak. Through a concerted effort of mystical orchestration, they take the wind and turn its voice into their own. It is a language I cannot interpret; no matter how hard I try, the [...]
Spring Waterbird Count 2020: Overtures
Black coffee and bright wind maps: that’s how I start days, up here in Paradise. As I trace back towards the source of the colorful lines that flow past the Point, I imagine — and [...]
Owl Update 4/15/2020
The varying weather conditions have naturally been affecting the owl migration, but we've had a few good nights since our last post. We continue to be surprised by the low numbers of Northern Saw-whet Owls [...]
Happy Easter
It's Easter Monday, and as I stand here on the hawk deck at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory — in below-freezing temperatures, with frigid north winds whipping off of Lake Superior, and snow (yes SNOW) falling [...]